After telling her, I know youre illegal.
Weve been counting visas.
“But I also felt incredibly safe and cushioned in the process of doing it.
Adria Arjona as Bix Caleen in season 2 of ‘Andor’.Credit:Lucasfilm Ltd
It’s somethingTony Gilroydoes.
“It’s a way of escaping,” she explains.
“It’s very different for her to say, ‘My boyfriend is coming.’
Adria Arjona as Bix Caleen in season 2 of ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm Ltd
She might feel that he won’t respect her, right?
But if she says, my husband, there’s power to that.
There’s respect to that.
Diego Luna as Cassian Andor and Adria Arjona as Bix Caleen in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
She hopes in her wildest dreams that he respects that.
Of course he doesn’t, but she feels incredibly cornered at that moment.”
“It’s more complex than a cute wedding in the gap year.”
For Arjona, she found solace and inspiration in real-life accounts of women who have survived rape and torture.
“I felt like I went through the acting Olympics,” she says of season 2.
“The research was heavier.
“That process was the most draining,” she reflects.
“And it stayed with me.
[People] that no one really knows about.
Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in season 2 of ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm Ltd
It felt like I was making them proud.
Andorseason 2 drops new episodes Tuesdays on Disney+.
